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High Voltage Stress Induced in Transparent Polycrystalline Diamond Field-Effect Transistor and Enhanced Endurance Using Thick Al2O3Passivation Layer

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Publication Date2017-03-20
JournalIEEE Electron Device Letters
AuthorsMohd Syamsul, Y. Kitabayashi, Takuya Kudo, Daisuke Matsumura, Hiroshi Kawarada
InstitutionsWaseda University
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A transparent polycrystalline diamond field-effect transistor (FET) was fabricated and measured in room temperature measurements, which reveals comparatively high maximum current density and high breakdown voltage of more than 1000 V. A harsh stress environment is proposed for simple and time-effective reliability stress measurement of the FET using a method of 50 continuous cycles of 500-V voltage stress. A 400-nm-thick Al <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;2&lt;/sub> O <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;3&lt;/sub> counter-destructive passivation layer was implemented on the FET for the stress measurements. Devices with wide gate-drain length (L <sub xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;GD&lt;/sub> ) retain their FET characteristics after the harsh stress measurements by only 50% reductions maximum current density.